From Anchorage, we're joined by Willie Hensley, a longtime activist for Native Alaskans, a former Alaska state legislator, and an Inupiat tribal elder. He founded the Northwest Alaska Native Association in 1966, and spent ten years as a representative and senator in the Alaska state legislature. He just retired last year from a ten-year stint as manager of federal relations for the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company.Author of "Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People."

From Washington, DC, we're joined by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, now the senior U.S. senator from Alaska.